Oxford University: Conference on creativity and prayer in 20th Century Russian Orthodoxy
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„Unfading Light. Creativity and Prayer in 20th Century Russian Orthodoxy” is the title of a conference organized by Oxford Universityon March 7-8, 2019.

The conference aims to explore the divergent progressions of thought form late 19th century Russian ‘traditionalism’ towards a (re)discovery of the universal dimension of the Christianity of the Fathers in the 20th century; from the narrow constraints of the Russian Academy to an openness towards some more fertile currents of Western thought; from a Russian ‘fin de siècle’ fascination with non-Christian oriental mysticism to Eastern Orthodox hypostatic prayer within an ascesis of deified personhood.